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Nasturtiums and the Hidden Dagger

in Poetry Winter 2025 on January 12, 2025 January 13, 2025

I. In the dust and the dirtof the orchard floor, there wasa beautiful red beetle — and it did not move. Amid a little world’s scatterand frenzy, here was something — a…

Burial

It’s fall in the garden and the leaves on the basil freckle with black.I am thinking of the signs of my father dying. It’s easy enough to see in my plants; the cilantro, albeit cold-clever,…